Palm Desert, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"As we passed Palm Desert and Rancho Mirage, the Cherokee was shuddering like a little kid who’s been crying and can’t stop."

"For some reason I remember standing in a phone booth at a 76 Station in Palm Desert at nine-thirty on a Sunday night, late last August, waiting for a phone call from Blair, who was leaving for New York the next morning for three weeks to join her father on location."